NikonNIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Mirrorless Lens

I got this lens for traveling because of its weight, telephoto zoom range, and its price. I was using a Nikon Z9 and traveling in Mexico and got some great daytime pictures of Birds in Flight diving in the shallows for fish. I also used it indoors in Japan for a Sumu Wrestling competition. I got some exceptional pictures using ambient light from about 30 yards away. It also worked extremely well for daylight landscape pictures. I highly recommend . It's extremely versatile and well built,

This is a great lens for taking landscape photos and perhaps even for zooming in on a “surprise” bird or animal on the side of the road. I usually use long lenses on my birding trips but sometimes you end up being just a little too close. I’ve set down my long lens several times throughout the years in order to grab my 28-300 SLR lens for a Trumpeter Swan, Sandhill Crane or deer near the road and this Nikon Mirrorless lens will be used the same way. One extra plus is that it is much smaller and lighter than the SLR lens so easier to pick up faster. So far I’ve only used it for landscape but migration season has only recently started.

I bought this lens wanting something I could use when traveling as I am tired of dragging a bag load of camera equipment through airport security.There are three things about this lens that make it worthy of your consideration: first, the construction quality is very good and the lens fully extended has no movement that I can detect. Secondly, the sharpness of this lens across its range is very good optically, and combined with a nice VR, pretty well assures that I can get printable photos. I purchased this intending to simplify my travel process; however, this lens has proven to be an exceptional buy in terms of image quality and value.

Bough over a month and so far so good. It's convenient and easy for going around. I don't have to change lenses. The images are sharp.

THIS IS ONE MORE, QUICK FOCUSING , SHARP LENS FOR YOUR NIKON Z CAMERA. The zoom range is amazing. The versatility is great for those times when you are out for opportunity shots, A beautiful flower, a bright red Cardinal on a tree branch, a Sandhill Crane family in the shade of a tree, a deer on the golf course…all are in reach with this remarkable lens.. do yourself a favor. Buy one.

Extremely convenient for travelling, yet the IQ is far better than I expected (as many people told me the 400mm side has poor IQ but in fact I love it). Good for telescope shooting, Best lens you can get if you want to bring only one lens with you.

This lens should be the perfect lens for travel, ~740gr and ineradicable zoom 28 to 400, One lens does it all.Testing the lens in a room with outside bright light the auto focus did not work on most objects.the test was in a room, outside daylight and half open shutters, used on Nikon Z7 camera.I could not take a shot on corner of a brown box only at any zoom, besides 28. In P mode.Switching to pin focus, could take photos in 300 maximum.It happen to me to visit in museums in Guatemala, that allow photos without flash.If I had this lens I could not take even one photo.I called Nikon tech support, they send a list of limitations of this lens, and one of them is low zoom with light, could not solve the problem.In comparison, using the Z7 with Nikon 24-200 works fine, in any mode, and auto focus on any object in the room.

Loving this lens for bird photography! There is some chromic aberration at the longest reach but easily fixed in post processing. This lens is HEAVY!